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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christendom The formation of Christendom was to be the work of a new generation of nations, baptized in their infancy and receiving even the message of the ancient world from the lips of Christian teachers. The history of this change from the Christendom of the twelfth century to the nations of the Reformation epoch, is the history of the later Middle Ages. This crusade against selfishness, passion, and weakness brought together the clergy of the West, as the attack on more material foes united its peoples, and as a consequence the ecclesiastical body in the twelfth century is a real society almost contemptuous of political or racial frontiers. www.newadvent.org /cathen/03699b.htm

History of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ireland became the main battleground in the Glorious Revolution of 1689, when the Catholic James II was deposed by the English Parliament and replaced by William of Orange. Socially and economically Northern Ireland suffered the worst levels of unemployment in the UK and although high levels of public spending ensured a slow modernisation of public services and moves towards equality, progress was slow in the 70s and 80s, only in the 1990s when progress towards peace became tangible, did the economic situation brighten. It is a chronology of Ireland from the Flood to the twelfth century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Ireland

McLaughlin Family Ancient History Ireland was probably the original home of these four-sided ecclesiastical bells, and they have been found in many areas influenced by the Irish Church, as far away as Brittany and Switzerland. Under the year 1196, the Annals record that Murtough McLaughlin, described as presumptive heir to the throne of Ireland and destroyer of the cities and castles of the English, was killed by Donough, son of Blosky O'Cahan, at the instigation of Clan Owen. At this time the English prelates of the Pale were putting forward strenuous efforts to support their claim that Ireland, as far as matters ecclesiastical were concerned, had been given to them by the Pope. home.epix.net /~ramcl/ancient.html

The Seven Nations Webring The Celts were an ancient European people that occupied the central areas of Europe from Asia Minor to the Iberian peninsula to Britain. The inspiration for the Seven Nations Webring came to me as I was browsing the multitude of Celtic webrings that had become abandoned after the Yahoo migration. Unlike other peoples of that period, who concentrated on figures of people and animals, the Celts developed designs that focused on abstract shapes and symbols. www.albee.org /sevennations

Connacht - Enpsychlopedia Connacht-Ulster was one of Ireland's four regional constituencies for elections to the European Parliament until it was superseded in 2004 by the new constituency of Ireland North West. In Ireland, however, the original pronunciation having remained intact, the Gaelic-style spelling Connacht is now used more often in English. The spelling Connaught reflects the former English practice -- in Ireland, though not in Scotland -- of representing the Gaelic voiceless velar fricative ch as ugh (compare lough for loch), (u)gh having been used in Middle English for the same sound. www.grohol.com /wiki/Connaught

2history03.htm The Peoples of the North are commonly known in ancient history as Japhetic, and the oldest existing records about their origins are the Hebrew Scriptures and some Assyrian chronicles. These ancient Venedians were neither Celtic, nor Goths, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians or any other, but an independent historic community, that in some areas and periods assimilated partially some groups of these peoples, mainly Sarmatians, by the obvious reason of sharing the same territory. According to these peoples' own records, their ancestor was "Thargamos", who achieved independence from Nimrod's rule; either history or legend, this tradition matches with others that mention Nimrod as the first one who reigned, leading to prove that all Japhetic nations had the same original homeland. www.imninalu.net /2history03.htm

Gale Virtual Reference Library Content List Providing a comprehensive discussion of the people, politics, economics, religion, culture, and social systems of Russia, this work spans the time from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation (among the ancient Eastern Slavic tribes) to the end of czarist Russia and on through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. This encyclopedia explores the many peoples of early European civilizations responsible for such accomplishments as the rise of farming in the Neolithic era and the building of Stonehenge. The intent of the encyclopedia is to provide readers with information about how these three nations have dealt with social welfare issues, some similar across borders, others unique, as well as to describe important events, developments, and the lives and work of some key contributors to social welfare developments. www.gale.com /tlist/online/gvrl_rt.htm

Pope Pius IX   25 March 1847  Aid for Ireland Therefore as soon as We learned that the kingdom of Ireland was suffering a great dearth of food, both grain and other provisions, and that the nation was hard pressed by a series of awful diseases caused by this lack of food, We immediately came to their aid. Indeed that nation has persevered in professing the Catholic religion in all distressful times, and the Irish clergy has worked industriously to spread the Catholic religion in the farthest parts of the globe. Finally the Irish nation zealously honors and understands divine Peter whose humble representative We are, and whose dignity, to quote the words of Leo the Great, "does not fail in the person of an unworthy heir."[3] www.ewtn.com /library/ENCYC/P9PRAEDE.HTM

Ethnologue: Bibliography of Ethnologue Data Sources Peoples of the middle Niger region of northern Nigeria. Gunn, H. Peoples of the plateau region of northern Nigeria. Eriksen, Thomas H. Linguistic diversity and the quest for national identity: The case of Mauritius. www.ethnologue.com /ethno_docs/bibliography.asp

The implementation of the right to self-determination as a contribution to conflict prevention Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of them. Peoples may also wish to claim the right to be included and not excluded from decision making processes on such vital matters as war and peace, issues typically reserved for the exclusive authority of states. Peoples and communities may attempt to secede because independent statehood appears to them to form the only means of obtaining the level of freedom and security which they aspire to. www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=01&par=446

Adherents.com It reported a membership of 530 people in the U.S. and Canada in 1988. The gentle, motherly mountain wife is no match for the fiery, aggressive Arapesh plainswoman who occasionally runs away to the mountains and wins a mountain husband away from her weaker rival... Most of these Arabs are third- and fourth-generation descendants of Middler Eastern people who arrived here between 1875 and 1948. www.adherents.com /Na/Na_33.html

User:Fergananim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There seems to be few people working in these areas, so I would deeply appreciate any and all comments from similarly interested wikipedians. The red links are for articles or stubs I intend to write up, and have listed them so I don't forget! en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User:Fergananim

Timeline of Irish history for Joyceans Born on the island of Ireland in the Irish ocean, come his feast of holy angels, Kevin, having been granted the privilege of a priest's portable altare cum bath, came to midmost Glendalough by archangelical guidance... A humble follower in the wake of clamorous conversions, a poor Englishman in Ireland, he seemed to have entered on the stage of jesuit history when that strange play of intrigue and suffering and envy and struggle and indignity had been all but given through-- a latecomer, a tardy spirit. He could not regard as patriots men who had taken oaths of allegiance to the Queen of England and he could not regard as a national university an institution which did not express the religious convictions of the majority of the Irish people. robotwisdom.com /jaj/ireland

Research on Ancient Celts Celtic Heritage is not intended as a collection of the ancient myths and legends of Ireland and Wales, a simple glance at the cover copy and the introduction should make that clear, nor is it one of those currently faddish, cobbled together New Age warm fuzzy spirituality entertainments supposedly based on secret Celtic lore. For a people that at one time dominated much of Europe, very little is known of the Celts and their religion, yet many flimsy theories and fanciful relationships have grown up over the years based on the scant evidence available. Ellis deconstructs the ancient texts to disclose biases and self-contradictions, then adduces archaeological evidence that reveals a Celtic world quite different from what Rome would have us see. www.geocities.com /mikerdna/celtic.html

Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland: The Ancient Mysteries Divine nations, like the Greeks, made the symbols beautiful, and these the uncultured tribes may afterwards have distorted into grotesque and rude imitations; but the same idea can be traced through all forms by which humanity has tried to represent history, nature, and God. The belief in a fairy race ever present amongst them and around them, is one of these ineffaceable superstitions which the people still hold with a faith as fervent as those of the first Aryan tribes who wandered westward from the mystic East, where all creeds, symbols, and myths had their origin. They circle, in general, round the mythus of the fairy, a bright and beautiful creation, only living for pleasure, music, and the dance, and rarely malignant or ill-natured, except when their dancing grounds are interfered with, or when they are not treated with proper generous consideration in the matter of wine. www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/ali/ali066.htm

Edinburgh University Library: Previously Answered Reference Questions A breive was a heriditary judge or justice in the Western Islands and Highlands of Scotland. Although many people 'supposed' the name Brex to be a pseudonym, it had its origins in the English Midlands, though Brex himself always fancied it to be Norse in origin. Excerpts from ISO 690-2 have been mounted by the National Library of Canada which welcomes links to its web document. www.lib.ed.ac.uk /faqs/parqs.shtml

ROME AND ITS POWER. PART III OF THE PREMIER WEB SITE ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION The dream was that thousands of people interested in Ancient History could roam the streets of long forgotten cities and, in a sense, get into the mentality of our ancient forbearers through a combination of historical research and discussion, social activities, and roleplay and other games. Moreover, ancient Roman writings, imply that such knowledge and practices were much older, restilying that eye physicians were numerous, specially in the northern regions of the Empire. Overview of the ancient world in which Christianity originated, maps, facts. www.omnibusol.com /anrome.html

Timeline 1879-1882 He had dubbed the collection "Priam’s Treasure." The archeologist bequeathed the treasure "to the German people for undivided and eternal preservation in the capital of the Reich" in 1880. 1880 The industrial force exceeded the number of people engaged in agriculture in the United States and Germany. Joseph Stalin, Communist leader of the Soviet Union was responsible for the killing of more than 10 million of his own people. timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML

Finding Databases - Ancient Europe 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (GaleGroup) Eastern Europe: an introduction to the people, lands and culture (ABC-Clio Ebooks) National Statistics Online: — home of official UK statistics exlibris.colgate.edu /journals/jindexab.htm

Talk:Kingdoms of ancient Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fergananim - hope you don't mind, but the "Peoples of Nations of Ancient Ireland" page seemed a bit redundant when this page exists, so I've merged them. Also, be careful in distinguishing between peoples and their kingdoms. Lastly, would it be okay if you left those in Connacht to me? Save you the trouble, and let me work in the cociead I know best! en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Kingdoms_of_ancient_Ireland   (309 words)

Ancient Irish peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia As is the case with most modern nations, Irish people descend from a great number of Ancient Irish Peoples, most of whom have with the passage of time being utterly forgotten except by historians. The majority of current Irish people believe themselves to be descended from Gaelic peoples living in Ireland prior to the Viking and Norman settlements. However, such peoples and dynasties who claimed Gaelic descent in Ireland were in a minority compared to others who claimed entirely different ethnic origins. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ancient_Irish_peoples   (208 words)

u.n submission The Irish Constitution as adopted in 1937, conceived Ireland as a sovereign State whose sovereignty derived from the authority of the nation and the people. Successive Irish governments, opposed as they are to partition, have been put into the impossible position of having to jail and oppress their own young people in order to protect British rule in the north-east corner of our country. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. www.32csm.netfirms.com /unsubmission.html   (11742 words)

A (much) smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland - Chapter XVIII - Measures, Weights and Mediums of Exchange Like other ancient peoples, the Irish fixed their standards of length - measures, for want of better, mostly, but not exclusively, with reference to parts of the human body. A full-grown cow, or ox, was in ancient times a very general standard of value, not only in Ireland, but all over the civilised world : and was considered equal in value to one ounce of gold. When English ideas and practices began to obtain a footing in Ireland, after the Anglo-Norman Invasion, various other measures of land were adopted, the most general of which was the acre. www.alia.ie /tirnanog/sochis/xxiii.html   (11742 words)

Celt - free-definition (Tribes or nations from mainland Celtic regions, such as Gaul and Belgium, are known to have moved into Britain and Ireland, such as the Atrebates, Menapii, and Parisii, however, and contributed to the make up of those peoples.) In ancient times, the Celts were a number of interrelated peoples in central Europe sharing many cultural and speaking a branch of Indo-European indicative of a common origin. The first literary reference to the Celtic people, as keltoi or hidden people, is by the Greek Hecataeus in 517 BC. www.free-definition.com /Celt.html   (11742 words)

Articles - Irish people The races, nations or peoples of ancient Ireland included the Fir Ol nEchmacht, Delbhna, Fir Bolg, Érainn, Éoganachta, Conmaicne and Ulaid. The arrival of the Normans brought Welsh, Flemish, Norman, Anglo-Saxon and Bretons. www.kamero.net /articles/Irish_ethnicity   (11742 words)

III. THE MCCORDS AND THE SCOTCH-IRISH The Scotch Irish were referred to as Irishmen because of their living in and coming from Northern Ireland or Ulster. The Scotch and Scotch-Irish peoples, heritage, and culture were then, and are, entirely separate and distinct from that of the Irish of Ireland. By contrast, the Protestants from Ulster or Northern Ireland were the largest in numbers of Washington's troops and had the greatest role of any ethnic group in America obtaining it's freedom from England. www.mccordfamilyassn.com /mccords.htm   (4405 words)

Brigit : Keepers of the Sacred Flame However, the people of Ireland thrived on war and the taste of blood, and thus Ireland was cleansed in blood of its people. Today, far too many people are ignorant of their religion and rely on poorly documented books and authors to instruct them on what they claim to be their beliefs. From this conglomeration of cultures are born the mythologies of the Celts. www.shadowdrake.com /celtic/brigit.html   (15149 words)

IRISH & SCOT There are a number of invading peoples mentioned in traditional Irish history, all of whom came from the south, most of whom are said to have come from Greece or Greek Scythia (Scythopolis?) via Spain. For more than five thousand years peoples moving westwards across the European continent have settled in the country and each new group of immigrants, Celts, Vikings, Normans, English, has contributed to its present population. People of this Western Hallstatt Culture were called Celts (Greek) and Gauls (Roman.) Around 450 BC., the La Tène Culture, which developed in this region, spread to eastern Austria, where the agricultural population adopted the new cultural form, copied it, and soon considered themselves Celts. www.geocities.com /amuse_amenace/irishscot.htm   (3871 words)

Ancient Peoples The Goidelic Celts were made up of the Irish and Scots (or Gaels) and Manx who lived in Ireland (Eiru), Highland Scotland (Alba or Caledonia) and the Isle of Man. Those who lived in Lowland Scotland were typically a mixture of Gael, Britons, Saxons and other ethnic groups. This word is a contraction derived from the Gaelic word "Gaidheal," which is similar to the Irish word "Gaedheal," the Old Irish word "Goidel," and the Welsh word "Gwyddel." The Gaels were Celts who lived in Ireland (Eiru), Highland Scotland (Alba or Caledonia) and the Isle of Man. This Middle English word (plural "Jutae") is derived from the Old English term "Iotas" which is derived from the Old Norse term "Iotar." The Jutes were composed of several Germanic tribes who lived in Jutland, invaded southeastern England in the 5th century AD and settled in what is now Kent. www.celticgrounds.com /chapters/appendix/anct_peoples.htm   (719 words)

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